Skelton v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Choctaw county of the crime of murder, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary during his natural life.

The evidence of the state was that the deceased, Jesse Greenwood, was a stepson of the defendant; that on the day of the homicide the deceased went to' the home of his mother and stepfather; that he had a 'bottle of whisky and. wanted his mother to' drink with him; that he cried when she refused, and she thereupon took a drink with him; that about this time the…